(Saturday, October 29, 1983, 5:50-6:35 p.m. UTC) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Linda made their first live television studio appearance in ten years today on the variety show The Late Late Breakfast Show, hosted by the DJ Noel Edmonds and transmitted from the BBC Television Centre in Wood Lane, London, on BBC1.

(Saturday, October 29, 1983) — The Dark Side of the Moon, the eighth studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd. today became the longest-running album on the Billboard music charts, with a total of 491 weeks, although that record has since been broken.

(Monday, October 29, 1973) — Ex-Beatle John Lennon released Mind Games in the U.S. today (it was released Nov. 16, 1973 in the UK), his fourth album since The Beatles broke up in 1970. The album was Lennon’s first self-produced recording without help from Phil Spector.